The CNM in Los Angeles Charter is our community's living constitution: how power is held, delegated, checked, and handed on, together with the operational protocols and appendices that put it into...
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Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. What V2 added that V3 keeps Rights & Responsibilities of Belonging as an enumerated section; the split between Charter and Protocols; "Authority is...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Until adopted, the most rights-protective temporary practice consistent with this Charter should be used and clearly identified as interim. Proposed for...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To make norms understandable, onboarding supportive, and information accessible without turning communication into reputation management. Orientation...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To protect people while keeping institutional systems legible and portable. Collect the minimum information needed for a defined purpose. State the...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To make delegated operations dependable, transparent, transferable, and accountable. Steward Operations Each function has a named accountable holder,...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To provide safe reporting, fair review, proportionate action, and meaningful accountability without requiring repair or creating a surveillance...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To support informed health consent without stigma while preserving medical privacy and individual sovereignty. Activity and Risk Categories This...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Purpose. To make interpersonal consent legible, affirmative, ongoing, and practical before, during, and after play. Core Standard. Interpersonal consent is...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. This Charter is a covenant we revisit, not a monument we build once. Any eligible participant may propose an amendment. Amendments require notice, accessible...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. The path into responsibility is explicit, welcoming, and low-barrier. Guest. A newcomer who has received or is receiving orientation. Guests may attend...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Community members should be able to see how authority is delegated, how collective decisions are made, and how shared money is raised, allocated, and spent....
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. We prefer restoration where restoration is safe and appropriate. Accountability may include education, facilitated repair, changed behavior, temporary...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Interpersonal consent and Governance Consent are philosophically related but operationally different. Interpersonal consent is affirmative, informed, specific,...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Stewardship is a role held in service, not a rank held over others. Stewards hold no authority the community has not delegated. Stewards may: carry out...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. CNM in Los Angeles is a participatory, community-governed space with bounded, delegated authority. Healthy communities sometimes need people to make decisions,...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. Belonging is unconditional at the level of human dignity. Participation in this particular container is conditional on behavior. We do not withdraw anyone's...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. These are the promises we each make, spoken from "I." Section 4 states the same ground in institutional language, because rights need to be enforceable. This...
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. These are the beliefs everything else inherits from. When this Charter or a Protocol is unclear, return here. Consent is the foundation, and it is generative....
Part of the CNM in Los Angeles Charter. We are an island of misfit toys - and we built the island on purpose. CNM in Los Angeles is a community-led space for consent-centered play: a place to explore...
